Earls Court
Templeton Place
In 1874 Lord Kensington entered into an agreement with Thomas Grange, a builder, to construct houses on land which included the future Trebovir Road and Templeton Place. Grange did not build the houses himself, but entered into a subsidiary arrangement with the Van Camps, a family of builders in Kilburn, who had originally come from Belgium. Jean Francois Van Camp and Edouard Van Camp were already building houses nearby in Hogarth Road. They began building here 1876.
Templeton Place is mostly taken up by the return frontages of houses built on the streets crossing it, except just north of Trebovir Road, where Nos. 1-13 (odd) were constructed on the west side and Nos. 2-8 (even) constructed on the east side (just below Spear Mews).
The Van Camps houses have four main storeys above basement, and with an attic storey in a hipped roof behind an ornate balustrade. The design is quite florid with ornate stone work around the windows and along the cornice. They have equally ornate cast iron balconies running outside the first floor windows. They used casement windows, not sash windows, on the upper floors.
